Encouraging Best Practice in Residential Aged Care Program: Final Evaluation Report

5 - Capacity Building

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This section contains:

• 5.1 - Improving staff knowledge and skills
• 5.2 - Developing resources to support evidence-based practice
• 5.3 - Other activities to build clinical capacity

Capacity building, within the context of the EBPRAC program, has three main components:

1. Improving staff skills
2. Developing resources such as clinical guidelines, resources and other materials to support evidence-based practice
3. Other activities to improve clinical capacity e.g. purchase of equipment.

The main focus of capacity building activity has been on improving staff skills and developing resources, with a smaller number of projects improving clinical capacity with capital expenditure. Capacity building activities were wide ranging, consistent with the literature on how best to provide education that is effective in changing practices, and responsive to the needs of staff in participating facilities.
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